Tuesdays. Do you enjoy knitting and/or crocheting with others, and making useful items from donated yarn for local charities? Drop in to our weekly knitting group on Tuesday mornings. Knitters from beginners to experts are welcome.
Host: Lynne Dyment
Limited to 12 in-person participants, first-come first served.
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Gibsons Library: Aging with Pride: Stories from Quirk-e
Celebrate Pride with an inspiring afternoon of storytelling from Quirk-e (Queer Imaging and Riting Kollective for Elders), a Vancouver-based collective of queer elders who have been creating, connecting, and advocating together since 2006. Through powerful readings of original work, Quirk-e members share stories of creativity, resilience, and living authentically across generations.
Join us for readings followed by a thoughtful discussion and Q&A.
Registration required.
Gibsons Library: Film Screening: The Stand
Join us to recognize National Indigenous Peoples Day by watching a powerful documentary on Haida resistance and environmental justice.
On a misty morning in the fall of 1985, a small group of Haida people blockaded a muddy dirt road on Lyell Island, demanding the government work with Indigenous people to find a way to protect the land and the future. In a riveting feature documentary drawn from more than a hundred hours of archival footage and audio, award-winning director Christopher Auchter (Now Is the Time) recreates the critical moment when the Haida Nation’s resolute act of vision and conscience changed the world.
Runtime: 95 min.
Registration required here.
Gibsons Library: Poetry Reading: Arleen Paré
Join us for a poetry reading with Arleen Paré, featuring poems from her recent collection Encrypted, an intimate and moving exploration of family, mental health, and intergenerational connection through her relationship with her grandson.
Arleen Paré is a Victoria writer with ten collections of poetry, one chapbook and one co-edited anthology. She’s been short-listed for the Dorothy Livesay BC Award, and has won the Victoria Butler Book Prize, a CBC Bookie Prize, the bpNichol Chapbook Award, the American Golden Crown Award for Lesbian Poetry, twice, and a Governor Generals’ Award for Poetry. She lives with her wife, Chris Fox, in Victoria on the traditional lands of the Coast Salish people.
Registration required.
Gibsons Library: Cybersecurity for Seniors – AI Edition
Curious about artificial intelligence and what it means for your everyday life? This friendly, easy-to-follow workshop will introduce you to the basics of AI, how it’s being used today, and how it’s changing the world around us—including online safety.
We’ll also cover common scams and security risks, and share practical tips to help you protect your personal information and feel more confident navigating the digital world. No prior tech experience is needed—just bring your questions!
Registration required.
This workshop is tailored to seniors, but all are welcome who would find it useful.
Delivered by Jay Calvert of Cyber Smart Canada.
Gibsons Library: Urban Safari Rescue Society
Be Amazed and Surprised! Urban Safari Rescue is bringing the world of exotic animal rescue to introduce the vast world of animals to people of all ages. Meet fascinating insects, arachnids, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals while being fascinated, educated, and entertained. This presentation also emphasizes the pitfalls of keeping exotic pets and why many of them end up in a rescued animal facility.
Registration required. Online registration for this event opens June 15.
Gibsons Public Library: Philosophy Café, Evening Edition
What is the true meaning of “success” in life? What is a “good education”?
Join the discussion as we talk about the eternal Big Questions, moderated by a trained philosopher. The moderator’s aim is not to find winners and losers in a debate, but to use all viewpoints as clues to the puzzle that, if completed, would offer us a truth of sorts. A different topic each time. All are welcome, including those who would rather mostly listen.
Discussion: Can LESS stuff provide the MOST happiness?
Facilitated by: Dr. Stephen Hare
In-person, drop-in.
Gibsons Public Library: Wheelie Good Adventures
Are you curious about cycle touring? Or looking for inspiration on new destinations? Join us as we travel Canada and the world by bike in this new series presented by TraC!
Independent Cycle Touring in Comfort – Spain and other destinations
Stephen Forgacs
Stephen Forgacs and Pamela Lee love cycle touring, but are no longer so keen on pitching a tent at every stop. Nor do they want to lug bulky bike boxes around on longer international trips that included just a week of cycling. As they discovered, it’s easy to cycle tour independently and still have a shower and comfortable bed at every destination without breaking the bank. Hear their tips on cycle touring made easy, fun, comfortable and relatively affordable.
TraC is a member-based organization that works to support healthy communities and reduce the Sunshine Coast’s carbon footprint by promoting more active and sustainable transportation alternatives to private vehicles, including cycling, walking, and transit.
Register here.
Gibsons Library: Book Club: Outspoken
Come join our discussion of Betty Baxter’s new book!
When Betty Baxter was hired to coach the Canadian women’s volleyball team in 1980, she was met with a media frenzy as the first woman in the position. Then her career was cut short—Baxter was fired in January 1982 and tossed from volleyball at age twenty-nine because of rumours about her sexual orientation.
This personal memoir chronicles Baxter’s journey from a small-town prairie girl discovering her passion for sports, through the years of international success, including harsh coaches, excruciating training regimes and the inequities in the sports system, especially for a closeted gay athlete. After her abrupt dismissal, Baxter turned to activism, seeking equality for women, initiating a new coaching school and working for a healthy, visible LGBTQ+ community through the internationally recognized Gay Games.
All are welcome (even if you haven’t read the book!). Register below.
Registration required here
Sechelt Library: Ancestor Hunters
Interested in your family history? Want to learn how to find your forebears? Whether you’re just starting out or have been working on your family tree for years, everyone is welcome to come to join our group of dedicated ancestor hunters, which meets the monthly.
Gibsons Library: Philosophy Café, Evening Edition
What is the true meaning of “success” in life? What is a “good education”?
Join the discussion as we talk about the eternal Big Questions, moderated by a trained philosopher. The moderator’s aim is not to find winners and losers in a debate, but to use all viewpoints as clues to the puzzle that, if completed, would offer us a truth of sorts. A different topic each time. All are welcome, including those who would rather mostly listen.
*This is a trial extra time slot in the evening for people who can’t make the regular time, it will be the same discussion topic as the December session.
January discussion: Is it time to redefine/retire marriage, or is it essentially the right ideal in its current legal form
Gibsons Library: French Conversation Group
Mondays New Time. Do you wish you could practice your French with other friendly French language learners? Join our weekly French Conversation Group! In person only.
No meetings on statutory holidays when the library is closed.
Gibsons Library: Welcoming Communities
Thursdays. Are you a newcomer to Canada? Would you like help getting settled, accessing services, learning skills, making connections in the community, or learning English? Sunshine Coast Welcoming Communities can help! Drop in to any session. For more information, call Olga at 604 – 212- 1938, email welcoming-communities@capilanou.ca, or visit their website here.
Gibsons Library: Open Mic Night
Calling all readers, performers, and writers! Join us on the first Wednesday of each month to share your own original material, or your favourite work by someone else: novels, stories, poems, songs, plays, memoirs, creative nonfiction, etc. Come enjoy reading, performing, or just listening. Five minutes maximum per person, please. Teens, adults, and performers at all levels of English are all welcome. Registration required for readers only.
Time slots for those wishing to read is limited, readers must register below, if you’re coming to listen don’t worry about signing up for a spot!
Gibsons Library: Philosophy Cafe
What is the true meaning of “success” in life? What is a “good education”?
Join the discussion as we talk about the eternal Big Questions, moderated by a trained philosopher. The moderator’s aim is not to find winners and losers in a debate, but to use all viewpoints as clues to the puzzle that, if completed, would offer us a truth of sorts. A different topic each time. All are welcome, including those who would rather mostly listen.
Facilitated by: Dr. Stephen Hare
In person, drop in.
We also host an evening session on one Wednesday evening a month for folks who can’t make it during the day.
Gibsons Library: Monday Morning Meditation
Guided Dharma Meditations for increasing relaxation , focus , body awareness through natural breathing techniques for mental and physical health .
No registration required, drop in to any session.
No class on statutory holiday Mondays.
Sechelt Library: Gaming Drop-in
Nov 28 & Dec 12. Looking for someone to play games with? Join us at our Gaming Drop-in program two Fridays a month! Adults, teens and kids over 10
Activities available:
Virtual Reality
Board Games (some provided or bring your own!)
Nintendo Switch
Warhammer painting
Fridays twice a month 3:30-4:30pm in the Community Room
Gibsons Library: Let’s Get Growing
Join the Gibsons Seed Library team and Stephanie Grindon from BioScapes Gardening for a talk on strengthening our local seed saving skills. Bring your questions to ‘Ask the Gardener’ and meet your fellow seed curious community while planting seeds together. The seed library will be handing out pea seeds and seedlings for their ‘Peas + Love’ Seed Project kick off!
Registration required here
If you require accessibility accommodations, please email outreach@gibsonslibrary.